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Operations Manager - Emeryville

5 days ago

Emeryville

Job Description Counter Culture Coffee was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Durham, NC, with regional offices in 12 major cities across the country. Counter Culture Coffee has been continuously innovating in the coffee industry and we’re looking for passionate, dynamic, diverse team members to help us expand our efforts and oversee roasting, packaging and fulfillment of some of the best coffees in the world. Counter Culture Coffee is: • A relentless pursuit of coffee perfection, • A dedication to real environmental, social, and fiscal sustainability, • A commitment to creating cutting edge coffee people Our Purpose is: • Quality Coffee | We continue to cultivate relationships with growers and organizations around the world in order to build trust, improve quality, and foster transparency., • Education | We believe the pursuit of coffee perfection includes educating ourselves, our partners, and our customers about the coffee supply chain and the best methods of preparation., • Sustainability | Our commitment to affecting positive change in every community to which we are connected is driven by our belief that we can–and should–always strive to improve upon the present., • Transparency | We are committed to sustainability and holding ourselves and our peers accountable for creating a more sustainable future of coffee. Position: Operations Manager - Emeryville Department: Operations Location: Emeryville, CA Reports To: Director of Operations FLSA Status: EXEMPT, 8810 Job Overview: Our operations fulfillment process has two distinct steps - Roasting and Production. The Operations Manager leads and is accountable for the entire manufacturing process in our roastery. The role is responsible for planning and the execution of the roasting, production, and fulfillment operations for the Emeryville facility to meet the daily business demands. This person will work closely across the various functions of the organization to ensure that Emeryville operations are prepared to support the needs of the various stakeholders. This position is accountable for inventory control, personnel management, and budgeting. They will help to resolve issues, set goals, create accountability, and provide mentorship across the teams. This person is resourceful, communicative, proficient with technology, and able to share a vision for how we will meet our long-term goals with short-term actions. This position is mostly strategic and administrational, managing the manufacturing process accountability to the other resources in the company by creating a budget, growth forecast, and capacity thresholds. They enjoy working on a team as well as working cross-functionally, can inspire and foster leadership, and they constantly strive to improve. The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading people, managing teams, and inventory, in a warehouse or commercial manufacturing facility. Job Duties: • Oversight of all roasting and production responsibilities, • Managing all manufacturing operations in our Emeryville facility, • Generating and implementing policies, procedures and processes in the Emeryville roastery, • Planning appropriately for scaling and growth, including proactive staffing, • Motivating and inspiring an engaged team, • Understanding the current & future business needs of the operations, and ensuring plans are in place to deliver, • Working with the team to identify and solve concerns, • Managing Emeryville operations budget and growth forecast, • Managing all materials vendor relationships, • Managing all Emeryville operations regulatory compliance, • Production or facility-related projects, • Responsible for ensuring high levels of safety and quality in the work environment while adhering to OSHA, GMP, and Food Safety across the operations. Food Safety & Compliance: • Audits, compliance and maintenance updates for Organic Certification, Kosher, GMP, SQF, FDA, CA Dept. of Ag., • CCP Training/Food safety team training and development, • Annual Safe Serve Certification, • Interdepartmental point of contact for customer document requests relating to certifications & compliance. Environmental Safety: • OSHA Regulatory adherence and compliance, • Powered Industrial Equipment Training, • Injury Tracking and Prevention, • Safety Team Captain, • Safety Report out for TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate), • Safety Documentation Program implementation, • Ergonomics and PPE review and cost reductions, • Shared Point of Contact – Emeryville FD, • Audit, assets and remedy safety issues with new machine installations such as: hazardous energy isolation, machine guarding & machine labeling, • Inclement Weather Internal and External Evacuation plan review and improvement, • Establish functional Emergency Response Teams Requirements: • Bachelor’s Degree in Managerial/Technical field, or equivalent professional experience in leadership, operations, or technical support roles., • 5+ years of demonstrated experience of manufacturing leadership or comparable experience, preferably in food beverage products., • Good understanding of LEAN manufacturing principles., • Experience working in a team leadership role in Manufacturing Environment is required, • Ability to record, report and analyze reliable data, experience with NetSuite a plus, • Experience with lean manufacturing and quality systems supporting a continuous improvement culture, • Ability to understand and analyze a manufacturing/supply chain P&L, • Willingness to be very hands-on and detail-oriented Preferred Skills: • Bilingual proficiency (English and Spanish) strongly preferred., • Commercial coffee roasting experience, • Project Management experience, • Lean Certification Physical Aspects of this Job: The physical activity of this position: • Reaching: extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction;, • Standing: particularly for sustained periods of time;, • Walking: moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another;, • Fingering: picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling;, • Grasping: applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm;, • Feeling: perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips;, • Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly;, • Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound; The physical requirements of this position: • Light work - exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up-to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. The visual acuity requirements (including color, depth perception, and field vision) of this position: • Requires close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and extensive reading. The conditions the worker will be subject to in this position: • Subject to environmental conditions - protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes; subject to noise - there is sufficient noise at times to cause the incumbent to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level. 90 Day Goals: • Attend New Employee Orientation, where applicable., • Strong understanding of LEAN, GGOB, B-CORP, • Strong understanding of Counter Culture’s vision, mission, values, and plan, • Complete required management training, • Proficient with inventory control and work processes, • High competence with leading weekly meetings, • Consistently using departmental scorecards to track key metrics, • Participate in a quarterly strategic meeting, • PCQI certification Benefits: Currently, the offered benefits include: group health (medical, dental and vision), available the first of the month after 30 days of employment; Flexible Spending Accounts for Healthcare and for Dependent Care; short- and long-term disability; life insurance; Wellness Benefits; 401(k) program; paid time off; eight company holidays; Stock Option Plan; A Stake in the Outcome. Counter Culture Coffee a growth-oriented company, team of coffee driven individuals working together on continuous improvements. Counter Culture Coffee is an Equal Opportunity Employer in both policy and practice. Counter Culture Coffee assesses candidates for employment based on their knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job for which they are applying and without regard to any non-job-related category as protected by federal, state or local law. Finalist candidates for employment will be required to demonstrate USA employment eligibility - per federal and state law, Counter Culture Coffee participates in the federal E-Verify program. Candidates must have the legal right to work in the United States without sponsorship.

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